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<span class=large>THE PROVERBS</span>
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CHAPTER 7
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A whorish woman leads a man as an ox to the slaughter—The house of an adulterous woman is the way to hell.
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My</span> son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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Keep my <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 15 (3, 15); D&C 14: 7.">commandments</a>, and live; and my law as the <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/7/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 32: 10 (7-10).">apple</a> of thine eye.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 6: 8.">Bind</a> them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/7/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 31: 33.">heart</a>.
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Say unto <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 37: 35.">wisdom</a>, Thou <i>art</i> my sister; and call <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/7/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Understanding.">understanding</a> <i>thy</i> kinswoman:
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger <i>which</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 28: 22 (20-23).">flattereth</a> with her words.
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&#182; For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
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And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
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Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
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In the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 24: 15.">twilight</a>, in the evening, in the black and <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/7/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Alma 10: 25; Alma 14: 6; Moses 6: 27; Moses 7: 26.">dark</a> night:
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And, behold, there met him a woman <i>with</i> the attire of an <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Lust; TG Sexual Immorality.">harlot</a>, and subtil of heart.
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(She <i>is</i> loud and <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Stubbornness.">stubborn</a>; her feet abide not in her house:
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Now <i>is she</i> without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 10: 27 (26-27).">every</a> corner.)
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So she caught him, and kissed him, <i>and</i> with an impudent face said unto him,
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<i>I have</i> peace <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE she cynically suggests her piety.">offerings</a> with me; this day have I payed my vows.
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Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
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I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved <i>works,</i> with fine linen of Egypt.
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/17a" mark="a" type="D" title="Heb. probably indicates a fragrant wood.">aloes</a>, and cinnamon.
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Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
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For the goodman <i>is</i> not at home, he is gone a long journey:
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He hath taken a bag of money with him, <i>and</i> will come home at the day appointed.
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With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
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He goeth after her <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/22a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR suddenly; all at once.">straightway</a>, as an ox goeth to the <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/7/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Fornication.">slaughter</a>, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
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Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 9: 12.">snare</a>, and knoweth not that it <i>is</i> for his life.
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&#182; Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
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Let not thine <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 5: 41.">heart</a> decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
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For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong <i>men</i> have been slain by her.
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Her <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/7/27a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Whoredom.">house</a> <i>is</i> the way to <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/7/27b" mark="b" type="C" title="Prov. 5: 4; Jacob 2: 35 (27-35); TG Damnation.">hell</a>, going down to the chambers of death.
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